descr: Descriptive Statistics

Weighted frequency and contingency tables of categorical variables and of the comparison of the mean value of a numerical variable by the levels of a factor, and methods to produce xtable objects of the tables and to plot them. There are also functions to facilitate character encoding conversion of objects, to quickly convert fixed-width files into CSV ones, and to export a data.frame to a text file with the necessary R and SPSS codes to reread the data.

Getting started

Package details

AuthorJakson Aquino [cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2522-8573>), Dirk Enzmann [aut], Marc Schwartz [aut], Nitin Jain [aut], Stefan Kraft [aut]
MaintainerJakson Aquino <jalvesaq@gmail.com>
LicenseGPL (>= 2)
Version1.1.9
URL https://github.com/jalvesaq/descr
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("descr")

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descr documentation built on April 28, 2026, 5:07 p.m.